Ya know, it only occured to me last week, looking back at the Gone Cruisin’ sketch; I don’t think I’d actually seen Steamboat Willie all the way through before. A startling omission. So had a look, it seems to consist mainly of Mickey Mouse joyfully abusing animals for no reason. What an asshole.

Cruise was great, by the way. Already planning the next one. We’re wondering if we can afford to do a transatlantic and visit the family.

Sorry about the lack of updates! I have been a lazy Monkey. But I have been an enthusiastic Bat. Last week I picked up Arkham City on Steam for $7.50 and in a matter of days, completed my third playthrough (after a regular game and new game + on 360). Now I never replay games, much less on hard mode. That is testament to how much I love the Arkham games. They are basically perfect.

Despite that, I hadn’t been following Arkham Origins very closely. The new studio, new VAs and it being a prequel had perhaps made me wary, so I was waiting and seeing. But donning the cowl again put me in the mood to go look into it and I was quite surprised to find it was coming out the next day. Preordered on the spot.

So comic’s up, now if anybody needs me, I’ll be brooding on a Gotham rooftop. *swoops dramatically into the night*

and well he went to hat hell by association and for not reporting Lothar’s crimes. He got the job because he was the only lawyer that didn’t have “you should make me a demon prince for this” in the contract.

oh, and Arkham city was loads of fun, though I could never find Mr. Freeze’s god-danged wife, no matter where I looked, and weirdly enough, you’d think batman, when facing goons armed with guns and he has nowhere to lurk, you’d think he’d at least pack a stun-gun or a gun with rubber bullets

So a walkthrough never crossed your mind? I vaguely remember finding her rather easily when you figure out the girl frozen in ice would need you to use the ice gadget to find her. Can’t remember if it was a requirement to finish the game though.

Nah, it’s a secondary objective. She’s in a warehouse in Amusement Mile. You need to use an ice grenade raft to access the dock entrance in the back.

As to countering armed goons, he has some options. The electric charge gun is a stun gun of sorts. He can use the batclaw to yank the gun from their hands. And the jammer tool is fun. I don’t think rubber bullets would be his style.

not at the time it didn’t Lothar, I didn’t use walkthroughs at all back then, I was stubborn about finding things myself, but I’m more inclined to using them now, and thanks for the tip Vi, very much appreciated, I’ll try that out next time I rent it.

I guess if I had to pick one thing to like about batman, it’s the fact that he refuses to kill, even though I think many of those villains are beyond redemption

Could be, or it may not be, Tzeentch is everything and nothing, he is there and not there, he may have weaved the twine of fates to make it seem like he is at court or it could just be a frail illusion of his many many forms.

With a case between the Patterner and Tzeentch, I’m surprised it didn’t end up with a settlement document made entirely out of fine print resulting in them suing each other for eternity for insane breaches like eating a durian during a gibbous moon within two days of a lightning strike that registered precisely 1.21 GW.

Seconded the person who said the last panels made him LOL like they hadn’t done in a while. I actually didn’t get the full picture at first, and it wasn’t until I took a second look at it that I saw Lothar’s hat. I did a double take and broke down laughing.

Actually, there was a very good reason that Mickey spends most of Steamboat Willie joyfully abusing animals. It was to show audiences in 1928 that “Hey! Hey!! Look at this!! We have SOUND!!! See?? See?? Isn’t it AMAZING?? Wouldn’t this moving picture be so BORING if it didn’t have SOUND?? You won’t get SOUND in Felix shorts, but in ours you do because we have SOUND!! We’re the BEST EVER because we have SOUND!!! …Did we mention we’ve got SOUND???”
Okay, seriously, I love Disney, but in my opinion Steamboat Willie’s only real strength is that it was groundbreaking for its time. …Not that Plane Crazy was any better, I mean, Mickey builds a plane and invites Minnie on a ride solely for the purpose of kissing her? Ehh… Different times, different times…

It makes sense, Khorne is the same in Warhammer and 40,000 because half the factions in 40k fight like it’s still the dark ages despite having machine guns and lasguns, and fully automatic grenade launchers. And all the armies we’ve seen in EN acted a bit more modern-day.

Why do you want to know about my sleeping habits? Are you stalking me? Have you a deep rooted problem with Khorne puns? Stemming perhaps from people not leafing well enough alone and leaving a husk of a joke behind?

Not entirely sure about this, but are Soulthirsters eye’s supposed to be Blue and Pink in the 4th panel, or are they supposed to be black, cause they seem to swap with colour scheme of his/her eyebrows

Interesting that Fernex is male, or manifests as such, now I think about it. You’d think a being of technology would be genderless. But if he’s shaped by mortal thoughts and viewpoints, I guess most engineers are male, as well as the stereotypical internet dweller.
Ah well, it’s probably not for mortal minds to ponder. Not too sure about Hound’s new look either though. I like that he’s thinking modern but.. I don’t know. There’s something appealing about a berserker. Perhaps he just needs to scale it back a bit, and grin while smoking a cigar.